baill (bal)

[Sometimes improp. bale; early mod. E. bail, bayle, E. bee2 ), a ring) (=D. beugel, a hoop, ring, bow, stirrup, handle, = MLG. bogel, bog gel, LG. bögel, a bow, ring, = G. biegel, bügel, a bow, bent piece of wood or metal, stirrup, = Dan. böjle, a bow, bar, boom-iron, = Sw. bögel, bygel, a bow, hoop, ring, stirrup, = Icel. bygill, a stirrup); with formative -el, IMG:content-1562.png:[blocks in formation] If cloth be delivered (or in our legal dialect, bailed ) to a tailor to make a suit of clothes. Black stone , Com., II. 452. (b) To set free, deliver, or liberate from arrest and imprisonment, upon security given that the person bailed shall appear and answer in court or satisfy the judgment given: applied to the action of the magistrate or the surety. The magistrate is said to bail a person (or to admit him to bail) when he liberates him from arrest or imprisonment, upon the person whose release he procures by giving the bond. bond given with sureties. The surety is also said to bail IMG:content-1563.png:[blocks in formation] Ford , Fancies, v. 2. To bail out, to procure the release of (a person) by acting as his bail. To bail over to keep the peace, to require security from (a person) that he will keep the peace. bail2 (bal), n. [Early mod. E. also bayle, bale, So did Diana and her maydens all Use silly Faunus, now within their baile . Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 49. 2. The keeping of a person in nominal custody on security that he shall appear in court at a specified time. The person is said to be admitted to bail, in which phrase, however, bail is now commonly thought of as the security given. See 3. 3. Security given to obtain the release of a prisoner from custody, pending final decision in the action against him. In civil cases a person arrested has always the right to give sufficient bail, and thereupon be released from custody. In criminal cases the defendant has also this right, as a rule, when the crime charged is a mere misdemeanor. Whether to bail one charged with treason or felony is usually in the dis cretion of the judge, and in some states bail is always denied to one held for a crime punishable with death. The sureties, providing that the defendant shall appear at the security is in the form of a bond executed by responsible order of the court under penalty of forfeiture of the sum named in the bond. The person bailed is regarded as but transferred from the custody of the law to that of his sureties, who may therefore seize and surrender him at any time. In civil cases there are several kinds of bail at common law, the chief being common bail and special bail. Common bail, or bail below, which is now disused, was given to the sheriff on a bail-bond entered into by two persons, on condition that the defendant appear at the day and in such place as the arresting proce commands. Special bail, bail above, or bail to the action, is given by persons who undertake generally, after appearance of a defen dant, that if he be condemned in the action he shall satisfy the debt, costs, and damages, or render himself to the proper person, or that they will do so for him. ( Wharton.) In Scotland, bail in civil cases is called caution (which see). 4. Figuratively, security; guaranty. Doubtle this man hath bail enough to be no Adulterer. Milton, Tetrachord on, Works (1738), I. 251. 5. Liberation on bail: as, to grant bail.-6. The who provide bail, and form of a circle or half-circle, as a hoop for sup porting the tilt of a boat, cover a wagon or cradle, etc. Specifically-2. The hoop forming the handle of a kettle or bucket.-3. One of the iron yokes which serve to suspend a life car from the hawser on which it runs.-4. A stout iron yoke placed over heavy guns and fitting closely over the ends of the trunnions, to which it is attached by pins in the axis of the trunnions: used to raise the gun by means of the gin. Farrow, Mil. Encyc.-5. An arched support of a millstone.-6t. A wooden canopy formed of bows. Hall i well. baill (bal), v. t. [